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Course
Instructor:
Preston G. Smith
Co-Author,
Developing Products in Half-the-Time |
About the Instructor
Preston Smith began
specializing in rapid product development in 1984 as an internal
consultant, became an independent management consultant
concentrating on time-to-market issues in 1986, and earned Certified
Management Consultant (CMC) standing in 1990. He has led more than
100 workshops in 24 countries worldwide on advanced product
development topics and has taught product development courses at
several universities. Companies that have attended his workshops
include: Siemens, Sony, Motorola, Medtronic, Nestle, Philips,
Samsung, DaimlerChrysler, and Honeywell. Over a twenty-year period,
he held engineering and management positions with North American
Aviation (now part of Boeing), Pratt & Whitney Aircraft, IBM, Bell
Laboratories (now Lucent Technologies), and General Motors Research
Laboratories.
 Preston
is co-author of the popular book, Developing Products in Half the
Time. Over 100,000 copies of this book are in use by managers in
many industries. In addition, he has authored several handbook
chapters and dozens of published articles on product development.
Preston is book review editor for the Journal of Product
Innovation Management. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from
Stanford University, and is a member of the Product Development and
Management Association (PDMA) and the Society of Concurrent Product
Development (SCPD).
His interest in
flexible product development began several years ago when he
observed companies hamstrung by rigid development processes in
fast-changing markets. He has learned about flexibility by
participating in the rapid prototyping community (keynote speaker at
six rapid prototyping conferences) and more recently in the agile
software development community, where he was keynote speaker at the
2004 Agile Development Conference and was a founder of the Agile
Project Leadership Network (apln.org). Preston is a member of the
Agile Alliance. |
